Department of Social and Family Affairs
The Green Book 2002
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Services for Individuals & Families

Services for Community & Voluntary Sector
> Services for Individuals & Families > Adoption
>> ADOPTION

Barnardos:

 

Tel: 021 4552100 Fax: 021 4552120
18 St. Patrick's Hill, Cork
e-mail: info@cork.barnardos.ie
website: www.barnardos.ie

 

(See also under "Children", "Counselling", "Helplines"and "Information")

 

 

Barnardos Adoption Advice Service:

 

 

Tel: 01 4530355 Fax: 01 4530300
Christchurch Square, Dublin 8.
e-mail: adoption@barnardos.ie

 

  • Independent and confidential service providing information, advice and counselling on adoption

 


 

Southern Health Board:

 

 

Tel: 021 4927250 (Adoption)
Ground Floor, Unit 4, South Ring Business Park,
Kinsale Road, Cork
Tel: 021 4923025 (Fostering)
Senior Social Worker, St. Finbarr's Hospital, Douglas Road, Cork.

 

  • Adoption services and Fostering Resource Unit
  • Counselling service for pregnant girls before and after the birth of their baby Applications for home and foreign adoptions
  • Assessments of prospective adoptive parents
  • Post-adoption support to adoptive parents experiencing difficulties
  • Post-adoption counselling is also available for adults looking for information on their origins

 

(See also under "Addiction", "Children","Older People", "Health Care", "Helplines","Homeless" and "Income Support")

 


 

St. Anne's Adoption Society:

 

Tel: 021 4273213
Fax: 021 4270932 34
Paul Street, Cork

 

  • Post adoption services-search and reunion for natural parents and adopted persons
  • Ongoing post-adoption counselling
  • Management of semi-open adoptions
  • St. Anne's Family Services-Counselling for families referred by S.H.B.
  • Assessment of couples for domestic adoption

 

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